Mahoning Valley Forum

With the retirement of Judge Douglas, should the number of judge positions in the Youngstown Municipal Court be reduced to only two judges? 

What are the judges case loads? Face it, the crime rate in the city is spinning out of control, and these cases start out at the Municipal Court level before they go to the Grand Jury and ultimately Common Pleas Court. If you want these criminals freely running the streets while out on bond waiting for a judge to have time to hear the case fine, but don't  come whining when another child is murdered. Remember this, and remember it good, the minute a criminal is arrested, the first thing his mouthpiece does is ask for a bond hearing, and the criminal is out on the streets, free to commit another crime.

i left the meeting when it was two hrs into it. my impression was that the public servants from all sides of mah were not interested in cost savings by cutting out dupilcated sevices but they were about saving their jobs and their fam and frds jobs that are ct related. bob hagen should introduced legistration to eliminate one jgeshp in ytown at the end of 2013 that is when douglas term is up. this will give the mah cty bar assoc time to study the ct consolidation issues with the stakeholders input. the monies on all ct levels are cut from st and fed levels pop in ytwn is dwindling. there is a need but it must be done in a orderly fashion to avoid lawsuits.